PHP help please! Replaced user picture with imagefield. Need to add default image.

I gave that a try:

  $pict =  $content_profile->get_variable('profile', 'field_avatar');
  $title =  $content_profile->get_variable('profile', 'title');
  $filename = $account->picture;
  
  if (file_exists($filename))  {
    print theme('imagecache','thumbnail', "user_pictures/user".check_plain($account->uid)."/".$pict[0]['filename'], $title, $title);
  }
  else {
    print '<img src="/sites/default/files/default-user.png" alt="" />';
  }

It actually overrode ALL the avatars with the default. Hmmm.

I put this in the file path to check it out. It ends up overriding all avatars with the default image, the same as when I try a non-existent path. Seems like that would mean the path isn't correct, but I tried the var_dump out and it returned this for the filepath:

["filepath"]=> string(63) "sites/default/files/user_pictures/user3/myavatar.jpg"

That's pretty much what I expected, since I set the field_avatar path to user_pictures/user[uid], so I'm confused as to why this did not work. If "user_pictures/user".check_plain($account->uid)."/".$pict[0]['filename'] works to show the custom avatars, then why wouldn't that same path work to check if there actually is an avatar file or not?

Just to be thourough, I tried with/without a preceding slash, using the path "sites/default/files/user_pictures/user" and even putting the whole absolute path. It's the same all around.

I tried out this code too. Sounds like something that would have worked, but it still served up only the existing avatars and left the others blank. Strange. Until the user actually uploads an avatar, there is not even a folder, since I set the field_avatar path to generate one at user_pictures/user[uid]. So I'm not sure how the script thinks there's something to find for the users with no avatar.

I don't know how much use I can be (I'm new to PHP) but I'll try to help a bit... This is the code copied from my site theme's user-picture.tpl.php:

$pict = $content_profile->get_variable('profile', 'field_avatar');
$title = $content_profile->get_variable('profile', 'title');

if (is_array($pict[0])) {
print theme('imagecache','thumbnail', "user_pictures/user".check_plain($account->uid)."/".$pict[0]['filename'], $title, $title);
}
else {
print theme('imagecache','thumbnail', "sites/default/files/default-user.png", $title, $title);
}

You're right, you do have to change 'profile' to the machine-readable name of your content type. And 'field_avatar' should be the name of your imagefield, while 'thumbnail' should be your ImageCache preset name.

You may already have done this part, but I forgot to mention that I used the Token module when I set up my ImageField field_avatar path. In Manage Fields>Avatar, under the Path settings, I set the path as: user_pictures/user[uid] so when user 4 (for example) uploads an avatar with my imagefield it's stored in sites/default/files/user_pictures/user4/user-avatar.jpg

From what I understand, that's why my path has to be "user_pictures/user".check_plain($account->uid)."/".$pict[0]['filename'] so it can check the user ID on the content and fill in the right path to that user's image.

I didn't change anything with the $pict[0]['filename'] part to get it working.

I don't know if you're using the Content Profile module like I am, but I had to edit the file content_profile.module like in the original post before my field would work in my user-picture template.